Holiday overload

I am officially over the holidays.  Normally I can't get enough, but this year I had plenty.  I started out the Christmas season with a last "girls trip" before the baby to Salt Lake.   My mom and I shopped from opening to closing of stores and had so much fun getting ready for Christmas!

Our neighborhood does a Christmas light contest every year.  Last year we thought ahead and found this blow up on clearance at Lowe's.  I bought it thinking that for a hundred bucks a 4 ft blow up was a bargain!  However, this year when we blew it up it was actually 12 feet and as tall as our house! Even with this white trash blow up, somehow we lost! I think it was fixed.

In my Grinchlike state I couldn't stomach the thought of buying, decorating and cleaning up after a Christmas tree.  Luckily my mom sent this mini version for a little Christmas bling.

 We then had Christmas parties every weekend night, and were already feeling ready to be finished.  Unfortunately, for actual Christmas, Austin and I counted that we opened presents on 5 different occasions.  My family had two Christmases and his family had two Christmases and we had our own little Christmas... it was a lot.  In total we had 6 holiday meals! It was so fun, but at 8 pregnant, I was exhausted!

                                           

2014 was one of the best years of my life.  It brought 2 amazing job opportunities, a new baby on the way and so many wonderful memories.  We both feel beyond blessed for the life that we have.  2015 will be quite the change, but we are so looking forward to parenthood.